‘Blue Peter’ is getting a brand new look.
It was not too long ago revealed the world’s longest-running kids’s programme – which first aired in October 1958 – is stopping stay broadcasts and can now be absolutely pre-recorded, in a controversial transfer by the BBC to adapt to the viewing habits of recent viewers, and now the company has revealed the present is shifting to a brand new location in Manchester and will likely be receiving a format refresh.
The present will roll out a “digital-first journal format” in September when it strikes to Versa Studios’ Campfield Services, although the manufacturing workforce and post-production work will stay at Media Metropolis in Salford.
The BBC mentioned: “Younger viewers are set to get pleasure from the brand new artistic studio area and digital-first journal format, recorded in Campfield Services at Versa Studios in Manchester.
“Blue Peter will proceed to ask kids into the artistic studio to expertise how the present is made and to deliver their vitality and pleasure because the motion occurs.
“Spontaneous moments and unscripted surprises will stay key components of the present.”
The workforce are at the moment “evolving the present in progressive methods”, and hope the adjustments will deliver a “entire new technology of viewers” to ‘Blue Peter’.
Sarah Muller, senior head of youngsters’s commissioning (7+) at BBC Youngsters’s and Schooling, mentioned: “‘Blue Peter’ is such an iconic a part of kids’s tv, and we’re evolving the present with progressive ways in which will likely be actually thrilling for our younger viewers.
“The transfer to the brand new studio will present quite a lot of artistic areas and visible choices that an entire new technology of viewers will love.
“Whether or not via interactive social media moments, international adventures or on-demand content material, we’re proud to proceed the legacy of a present that has impressed generations, and we are able to’t wait to point out audiences our new look in September.”
‘Blue Peter’ badges will nonetheless be awarded and the BBC mentioned the present will proceed to “encourage children to submit their very own concepts and art work, take part in competitions, and luxuriate in adventures with their favorite presenters”, based on the BBC.
The present’s editor, Ellen Evans, mentioned: “Because the longest-running kids’s TV present on the planet, ‘Blue Peter’ holds a novel place within the hearts of a number of generations.
‘The present’s enduring attraction lies in its capability to encourage and encourage kids to be curious, adventurous, and imaginative.
“Children, celebrities, mother and father, and grandparents know what the Blue Peter badge means; that you’ve got tried your greatest, finished one thing to be pleased with, made one thing, [and] most significantly, you’ve got earned it.”
‘Blue Peter’ is at the moment hosted by Joel Mawhinney, Abby Prepare dinner and Shini Muthukrishnan.
